Sentence examples for the splinter of ice from inspiring English sources

Does she have the splinter of ice?

It is he, after all, who gets the splinter of ice in his eye, like the boy in the fairytale.

Bennett Miller's Capote is about the splinter of ice in the heart of the author of In Cold Blood This is not a biography of Capote.

He also, I suspect, had what Graham Greene called the "splinter of ice" in his heart which would allow him to go ahead and film what was happening: an old woman living through her final days, hours and minutes.

Poor Dean is just raw material for fiction, destined to be left behind as Sal becomes a New York big-shot, but even here, Sam Riley's Sal does not register any sense of sadness or betrayal or what Greene called the splinter of ice in one's heart that a writer needs – merely a vague regret.

After consulting with eminent literary critic Jules Hilbert Dustin Hoffmann), panicky Harold finds that he must make contact with Karen, persuade her to remove the splinter of ice that Graham Greene said was in every writer's heart, and genre-shift his story from tragedy to comedy.

"He is so personally charming," Sisman told me, "that I am working to preserve that splinter of ice in my heart that Graham Greene said every writer needs".

Tomlinson is the great heart of the movie, the warmth to Andrews' splinter of ice, who, while sustaining the film's line in jokey verbosity, still manages to be moving.

This was the reading stuff of my childhood, forgotten until one day in the 1980s I visited the Hans Christian Andersen museum in Odense in Denmark – I was on an author's tour – and listened to a recording of Laurence Olivier reading The Snow Queen: about the unreachable lad with a splinter of ice in his heart, and Gerda wandering the world in search of him.

Another difference between the writer and the clockmaker is that the writer must, as Graham Greene once put it, have a "splinter of ice in the heart", while the clockmaker can go to his trade as a refuge from difficult emotions.

Along the way, she says, she was raped and abused, and like the boy in "The Snow Queen," who gets a splinter of ice in his eye, she has come to see the world as an irredeemably cold and ugly place.